Christopher Arett, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Urology
Training and experience: Medical degree, Washington University; general surgery internship, University of California, San Francisco; urology residency, Washington University; urologist, Belleville, Illinois
Clinical interests: Men’s health, benign prostatic hyperplasia, general urology (Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital)
Diego Casali, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Anesthesiology
Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Brescia, Italy; cardiothoracic critical care medicine fellowship, Harvard Medical School; critical care medicine fellowship, Washington University; emergency medicine residency, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Clinical interests: Intensivist in the cardiothoracic and surgical intensive care units; extracorporeal life support, mechanical circulatory support and perioperative echocardiography
Shaina Eckhouse, MD
Assistant Professor, Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio; general surgery residency, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston; minimally invasive/bariatric surgery fellowship, Duke University
Clinical interests: Advanced laparoscopic techniques in the treatment of morbid obesity and related disorders
Research interests: Outcomes after weight-loss surgery, how obesity surgery impacts chronic disease progression across multiple fields within medicine
Sean English, MD
Assistant Professor, Section of Vascular Surgery
Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Pennsylvania; general surgery residency, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; vascular surgery clinical and research fellowship, Harvard University
Clinical interests: General vascular surgery, aortic disease
Research interest: Pathophysiology of AAA disease and its associated rupture
John Felder, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Plastic Surgery
Training and experience: Medical degree, Baylor College of Medicine; plastic surgery residency, Georgetown University; hand surgery fellowship, Washington University
Clinical interests: Hand surgery, peripheral nerve surgery, full range of plastic surgery (Alton Memorial Hospital)
Gerald Fortuna, MD, Col, USAF, SFS, MC
Assistant Professor, Sections of Acute and Critical Care Surgery and Vascular Surgery; Director of the U.S. Air Force C-STARS (Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills) program, St. Louis
Training and experience: Medical degree, University of South Carolina; general surgery residency and trauma/critical care fellowship, University of Cincinnati; vascular/endovascular surgery fellowship, University of Texas, Houston
Clinical interests: Trauma/critical care and vascular surgery
Sean Glasgow, MD
Assistant Professor, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Training and experience: Medical degree, Duke University; general surgery residency, Washington University; colon and rectal surgery fellowship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; colorectal surgeon, U.S. Air Force C-STARS instructor; staff surgeon and assistant professor, San Antonio Military Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; adjunct assistant professor, Washington University
Clinical interests: Colon and rectal cancer, carcinomatosis, inflammatory bowel disease, benign anorectal diseases
Katherine Glover-Collins, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Section of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery
Training and experience: Medical and doctoral degrees, Meharry Medical College, Nashville; general surgery residency, University of Arkansas; breast surgical oncology fellowship, Washington University
Clinical interests: Breast oncology, breast surgery, breast health
Puja Kachroo, MD
Instructor, Section of Cardiac Surgery
Training and experience: Master’s degree, biomedical engineering, Columbia University; medical degree, Ross University, Dominica, West Indies; general surgery residency, Rutgers; research thoracic surgery fellowship, University of California-Los Angeles; cardiothoracic surgery fellowship, Washington University
Clinical interests: Coronary artery bypass grafting, valve replacement incorporating transcatheter-based intervention, surgical treatment of aortic disease
Benjamin Kozower, MD, MPH
Professor, Section of Thoracic Surgery
Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Rochester; master of public health, University of Virginia; general surgery residency, University of Connecticut, Farmington; cardiothoracic surgery residency, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University; professor of surgery and public health sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Clinical interests: Surgical oncology, robotic surgery, benign foregut surgery, lung transplantation
Constance Wye Leng Lee, MD
Instructor, Division of Pediatric Surgery
Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; general surgery residency, surgical critical care fellowship, pediatric surgery fellowship, University of Florida, Gainesville
Clinical interests: pediatric general surgery (Washington University and University of Missouri Mother’s and Children’s Hospital, Columbia, Mo.)
Other interests: Instructional support, pediatric residency, University of Missouri
Nadia Obeid, MD
Instructor, Section of Acute and Critical Care Surgery
Training and experience: Medical degree, Wayne State University; general surgery residency, Henry Ford Hospital; fellowship, surgical critical care, Washington University
Clinical interests: Trauma and non-trauma emergency care; selective elective surgical care, geriatric trauma, surgery/burn/trauma intensive care
Orlando Petrucci, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Section of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Training and experience: Medical and doctoral degrees, general surgery and cardiac surgery residencies, faculty, University of Campinas, Sao Paul, Brazil
Clinical interests: Pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, heart failure, heart transplant; adult congenital heart disease
Laurie Punch, MD
Assistant Professor, Section of Acute and Critical Care Surgery
Training and experience: Medical degree, University of Connecticut, Farmington; general surgery residency, University of Maryland; surgical critical care fellowship, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center; faculty, University of Maryland School of Medicine/R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore; surgeon, Houston Methodist Hospital
Clinical interests: Surgical management of invasive soft tissue infection, damage-control techniques for nontraumatic intra-abdominal emergencies
Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Training and experience: Medical and doctoral degree (education), general surgery residency, Stanford University; minimally invasive surgery fellowship, Washington University
Clinical interests: Bariatric and foregut surgery (including anti-reflux procedures and treatment of achalasia), cholecystectomy, inguinal hernia repair
Jason Snyder, MD
Assistant Professor, Section of Acute and Critical Care Surgery
Training and experience: Medical degree, Marshall University; general surgery residency, University of Maryland; surgical critical care/trauma fellowship, University of Tennessee, Memphis
Clinical interests: Trauma, emergency general surgery, critical care services
Ralph Torrence, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Urology
Training and experience: Medical degree, Georgetown University; urology residency, Washington University; partner, St. Louis Urological Surgeons, Inc.
Clinical interests: General and female urology, bladder cancer, endourological management of stone disease
Ramakrishna Venkatesh, MD
Professor of Surgery, Division of Urology
Training and experience: MBBS and master of science degrees, Bangalore University, India; surgical and urology residencies, Royal College of Surgeons, United Kingdom; endourology and laparoscopy fellowship, faculty, Washington University; faculty, University of Kentucky
Clinical interests: Kidney stone disease, laparoscopic and robotic surgical procedures for renal cancer, prostate cancer, adrenal tumor and ureteral disorders